When cases of COVID-19 began rising in Boston last spring, Pooja Chandrashekar, then a first year student at Harvard Medical School, worried that easy-to-understand information about the pandemic ...

The words some doctors use are often misunderstood by patients and their families, leaving them feeling confused and vulnerable, according to researchers. In a study published Wednesday in the journal ...

But if a provider still is not sure how much medical jargon patients understand, Dr Miller recommends “subtle ways to explain without necessarily appearing to do so.” For example, the provider can ...

Learning medical terminology can feel like drinking from a firehose, but the right memory strategies make it manageable. From active recall to spaced repetition and mnemonics, evidence-backed ...

Common medical phrases often confused individuals in ways that could affect health outcomes, a cross-sectional study found. Among 215 adults surveyed outside the medical setting, most knew "negative" ...

There's a lot of room for dangerous misunderstanding when doctors and public health officials talk to diverse groups about COVID-19. Health... When cases of COVID-19 began rising in Boston last spring ...

Learning medical terminology doesn’t have to feel like drowning in jargon. By breaking terms into prefixes, roots, and suffixes, and pairing that with proven memory techniques, you can retain them for ...

Doctor consults with patient. A team of researchers affiliated with the University of Central Florida in Orlando listened to audio recordings of patient encounters and found that less than half of all ...

When cases of COVID-19 began rising in Boston last spring, Pooja Chandrashekar, then a first year student at Harvard Medical School, worried that easy-to-understand information about the pandemic ...